Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic, and being stretched outside of our own social makeup.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.
To me she said, "It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone.""It's a game of wits," Bert said to me."Half-wits," Kristy added.
Love's night and a lampJudged our vows:That she would love me everAnd I should never leave her.Love's night and you, lamp,Witnessed the pact.Today the vow runs:"Oaths such as these, waterwords."Tonight, lamp,Witness her lying- In other arms.
“There's a lot of similarities between the two sides, so it really is going to be a battle of wills and of wits.”
“Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.”
“I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.”
“There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.”
“I anticipate we will have hearings on statements that he's made, with respect to witnesses and the search of the vehicle.”
“When I got through with him, he was all covered wit' blood, my blood”